Let me tell you something

Don’t be too hard on yourself

Could I trouble someone to give an ELI5 for this?

I don’t understand any of it so I’m curious what makes it so desirable.

Well yeah it’s mandarin, but in the show Mandarin is pretty exclusively used for very creative swear phrases, such as “The explosive diarrhea of an elephant”. Things that might be fun to learn to say…

See: https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/

I’m just running a pain Linux with the MATE desktop, with increased sizes of mouse cursor and UI elements.

The big thing is using VLC with a wireless keyboard, and using a white sharpie on the keycaps to show the quite customised VLC shortcuts.

It’s been years since I tried Kodi et al, and I always found the actual media playback to be lacking some customisation (eg. audio or subtitle timing offsets).

In lieu of a media database, I simply mark the movie folders with file emblems when I’ve watched a movie or episode (VLC keeps track of partial viewings, resuming where it left off).

I haven’t seen Our Groceries listed yet. I don’t know Grocy so I don’t know how this one compares, bells-wise, but it’s pretty straightforward, you can share a list with any number of users, and manage/add/edit/remove lists and items via a web app or mobile app.

I’ve sent the devs more than one feature suggestion / bug report, and they were impressively responsive and forthcoming.

Man, the SE, ImageWriter, and LaserWriter really were peak industrial design. Ain’t nobody gonna convince me otherwise.

I’m not an artist, I just need the occasional hack job or screenshot annotation.

I loved the simple programs (this love stems from all the way back to MacPaint v1.0) and MS Paint has largely been ok for me apart from its lack of png support and only 90° rotations.

On Linux, Pinta has been fantastic but these last few years it got increasingly more crashy, to the point where it will now consistently crash within 10 seconds or two clicks, regardless of Linux distro / laptop/pc / version of Pinta. (insert “whyyyyy” meme here)

I’ve tried Krita, but it’s simply too much. Don’t even want to try installing Gimp. I am sad.

The pictured kings of turbine works very well with wind from any direction. I’d be more concerned about having low friction bearings so cost to sea water.

Yes, I’m really confused about this article - isn’t what you describe still in effect? Why on earth not? (I haven’t used Windows in ages so I personally have never seen that.)

Zoe: swears in Chinese

Subtitle: “[SPEAKS GALACTIC LANGUAGE]”

FU, everyone knows that that’s a real language and probably a very juicy phrase that would be absolute golden to know for some other occasion!

^(PSA there exists a site with every phrase translated and explained)

And it’s working.

So many people believe that Covid was a way to scare us all indoors, so they could change batteries in all the birds.

That’s preposterous.

Birds use rechargeables, that’s why they’re always sitting on the power lines. Like, duh, wake up sheeple.

I once read a beautifully indisputable piece on how Jar Jar Binks is a highly skilled Sith Lord. It’s all a front!

Really?? In Scandinavia such well equipped camp sites are all over the place.

I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my “post Windows” attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).

Yes, I’m old…

What on earth does this mean? I’m not a world-class expert in mathology but I’ve never seen this kind of relative comparison before.

More comedic than dramatic, and more “highly unlikely” than “dumb luck”, but this one time I fell while skiing. It happens, I was a reckless kid as many are.

But this? This was on a flat, broad, almost level stretch connecting two pistes, and me and my dad were basically just cruising along. I don’t know what, but something happened and I face planted, stopping instantly.

One ski out to the side, the other… vertical? Stuck into the piste at a right angle, all the way from the tip to the binding… without becoming detached from my boot. The mechanism worked fine, mind you, it just hadn’t disengaged. There was no gash in the snow, no entry mark, just hard packed piste with half a ski sticking out of it like so much sword in a stone.

Not an alarm, but a timer app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.persapps.multitimer

MultiTimer is brilliant for having a dashboard of purpose made timers that I use all the time (weekly baking, laundry, tea timer, etc) and ad hoc timers.